page_title: Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll
section_title: Final years
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll / Final years
caption_attribution_description: English: Television programme After Dark on 9th April 1988, showing guests Cecil Blacker, Margaret Campbell and John McCririck ("Horse Racing: Sport Of Kings?"). (c)1988 Open Media Ltd.
context_page_description: Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll was a British socialite, best remembered for a celebrated divorce case in 1963 from her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.
context_section_description: Margaret wrote a memoir, Forget Not, which was published by W. H. Allen Ltd in 1975 and negatively reviewed for its name dropping and air of entitlement. She also lent her name as author to a guide to entertaining. Her fortune diminished, however, and she eventually opened her London house—48 Upper Grosvenor Street, which had been decorated for her parents in 1935 by Syrie Maugham  — for paid tours. Even so, her extravagant lifestyle and ill-considered investments left her largely penniless by the time she died.
  In 1978, her debts forced Margaret to move from Upper Grosvenor Street and relocate with her maid to a suite at the Grosvenor House Hotel.
  In April 1988, on the evening after the Grand National, she appeared on a Channel 4 After Dark discussion about horseracing "so she said, to put the point of view of the horse", later walking out of the programme "because she was so very sleepy".
  In 1990, unable to pay the hotel bills, she was evicted, and with the support of friends and her first husband moved to an apartment. Her children later placed her in a nursing home in Pimlico, London. She was photographed there by Tatler magazine, for which she had previously been a columnist, sitting on the edge of her bed in a grim single room. Margaret died in penury in 1993 after a bad fall in the nursing home. She was buried alongside her first husband, Charles Sweeny, in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey.
caption: Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, appearing on After Dark in 1988
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